Albert Sawyer Miller

January 28, 2001|Compiled by MANDY MALONE Daily Press

YORKTOWN — Albert Sawyer Miller, 84, died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2001, in Riverside Regional Medical Center. Born in Norfolk, he had lived in Hampton most of his life until moving to Yorktown eight years ago. He was a 65-year member of First United Methodist Church and Wesley Men's Bible Class.

Mr. Miller retired as a supervisor in the shipfitters department of the Newport News shipyard after 45 years. He was a 50-year member of St. Tammany Lodge #5, A.F.&A.M.

Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Fairy Miller; two daughters and their husbands, Joyce and B.T. Forrest of Poquoson and Gloria and Russell McGhee of Hampton; three grandchildren and their spouses, Cindy and Brian Gibbons of Hampton, Tammy Swofford of Poquoson and Taylor and Melissa Forrest of Poquoson; seven great-grandchildren, Brian Gibbons, Ashley and Kyle Morris, Leighann and Joe Swofford and Sarah and Michael Forrest; four sisters, Lila Reynolds of Greenville, Ala., Margie Beasley of Toano, Marion Owen of Williamsburg and Shirley Miller of Hampton; and two brothers, Jimmy Miller of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Marvin Miller of Hampton.

A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First United Methodist Church by the Rev. John B. Morris and the Rev. William R. Kyle Jr. Burial with Masonic rites will follow in St. John's Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Monday at R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home. They will be at 18 A Woodland Road, Poquoson, at other times.

Memorial donations may be made to First United Methodist Church, 110 E. Queen Street, Hampton, VA 23669.